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by ifthen 14y ago
Several states have consumer protection boards set up for just this sort of thing. I know because I filed a complaint in CT against a contractor who did faulty work. My complaint along with a few others were compiled, leading to a hearing w
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by ifthen 15y ago
Hmm. Typically, it’s the opposite, no? There are plenty of companies who have no reason to innovate once their competition is gone.
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by ifthen 16y ago
The minor design tweaks I’d make aside, it‘s creative and I love it, but having tried the creative cv route before, headhunters and/or HR always come back with “Can you send us something formatted for Word?”
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by ifthen 16y ago
At the risk of complaining about a free service, the most frustrating/humorous part is their voice to text translation service. While about the only thing that comes out accurate is the number the call came from, the rest of the conversatio
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by ifthen 16y ago
Except, Google would then be in the customer service business. I’m not saying they couldn’t throw resources against that endeavor, but think of the time waste of being on the phone vs. having automated responses based on the keywords in som
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by ifthen 16y ago
Don’t know if others experience this, but I can’t listen to anything with lyrics while figuring things out because it distracts me, so movie scores work best. (Currently, that’s James Horner, Thomas Newman etc.) When I’m banging work out in
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by ifthen 16y ago
(Meaning, not to offer it outright in fixed increments like $5 for 20, etc., but as incentive for him to get there ASAP.)
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by ifthen 16y ago
He can also use delivery times as an incentive the way Domino's used to, albeit in reverse: The sooner he gets it to you, the more you pay.
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by ifthen 16y ago
Tone of voice is just as important. I have an in-law who’s a cop, and most times if you're a jerk, he says you get the ticket you might otherwise not have. It’s very much an issue of power because someone needs to control the situation—you
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by ifthen 16y ago
Which is another American use of sir in that, when someone cuts you off in line, rather than let loose, a firm but loud “Sir” tends to let them know you’re angry and that perhaps they did something wrong. Of course, if “Sir” ends up faili
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by ifthen 16y ago
I should clarify. It's more that the old newspaper/publication opt-ed mindset where a columnist writes a piece that goes out to readers in a one-way form of communicating that doesn’t facilitate responses easily, has given way to a more ope
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by ifthen 16y ago
Times are different. I walked to school since kindergarten, but no way I let mine when it came time. (Certain years we drove just because we lived where there were no bus routes, and making a small kid walk that far with heavy backpacks jus
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by ifthen 16y ago
“I think they're publications.” Old-school thinking, alive and well.